Tracey Birdwell serves as the Assistant Director of the Center for Instructional Excellence.
She is working to build an innovative teaching culture at the fast-growing Purdue in Indianapolis campus. Her areas of interests include learning spaces, scaling student engagement in large enrollment courses, and the future of higher ed. She frequently publishes and speaks about learning spaces, student success and teaching excellence.
She has published her work in EDUCAUSE Quarterly, EDUCAUSE Review, Innovative Higher Education, The Journal of Learning Spaces, Campus Technology, the Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning, The Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, and The Conversation.
Tracey earned her Ph.D. in American History from the University of Delaware.
Sophie and Jenay talk with Eden Dahlstrom and Tracey Birdwell about what to expect at the October 2025 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Nashville and how attendees can make the most of their time together.
The Enrollment Crisis is issue #3 in the 2024 EDUCAUSE Top 10.
Indiana University's Mosaic Fellows program has upended standard practices for many faculty development programs in ways that have given faculty members a significant voice in the growing conversation about learning spaces and pedagogy.
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